{"id":340,"date":"2022-04-14T22:05:53","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T20:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/romapolicylab.org\/?p=340"},"modified":"2022-04-14T22:08:29","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T20:08:29","slug":"project-improving-the-access-to-justice-for-people-living-under-the-poverty-line-with-a-special-emphasis-on-women-children-and-roma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/romapolicylab.org\/?p=340&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Project: \u201cImproving the access to justice for people living under the poverty line with a special emphasis on women, children and Roma\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Implemented in:<\/strong> Districts of Sofia, Stara Zagora, Veliko Tarnovo and Varna<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Justice Programme under NFM 2014-2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Impleme<\/strong>n<strong>tation period:<\/strong> 20.02.2020 &#8211; 20.02.2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Lead organisation:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/mjs.bg\/home\/index\/1201f1c6-798b-41b6-a874-052e228ac8a1\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/mjs.bg\/home\/index\/1201f1c6-798b-41b6-a874-052e228ac8a1\">National Legal Aid Bureau<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Partner:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.domstol.no\/en\/norwegian-courts-administration\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.domstol.no\/en\/norwegian-courts-administration\">Norwegian Court Administration<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Project summary:<\/strong> The main aim of the project is to further expand the system for legal aid provision to encompass more citizens with vulnerable background as well as to strengthen the state&#8217;s role in reaction to domestic and gender-based violence while exercising its duties to ensure equal and fair access to justice and legal aid to people whose fundamental human rights have been violated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The project specific objectives include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Ease the access to justice and legal aid of 250 members of the target group including victims of domestic andgender-based violence, children and ethnic minorities and\/or living in distant and geographically isolated areas through the creation of mobile legal aid units in Stara Zagora, Veliko Tarnovo and Varna;<\/li><li>Establishment of pilot coordination mechanism at local level in the area of domestic and gender-based violenceincluding representatives of municipal, MoI, MLSP structires, court and Bar in Stara Zagora, Veliko Tarnovo and Varna;<\/li><li>Improving the coordination between the separate administrative units at local level in supporting victims ofdomestic and gender-based violence;<\/li><li>Capacity building for 300 lawyers, inscribed into the National Legal Aid Register to improve their knowledge on the topics of prevention of discrimination, combating stereotypes and prejudices, domestic and gender-based violence; 5. Strengthening the bilateral relations with Norway through exchange of experience and conducting 2 study visits in the area od domestic and gender-based violence;<\/li><li>Awareness raising of the general public with regards access to legal aid and empowering vulnerable groups in particular victims of domestic and gender-based violence to protect their rights through legal aid;<\/li><li>250 members of vulnerable groups receiving primary legal aid incl. victims of domestic and gender-based violence, children at risk and representatives of ethnic minorities\u2022 250 domestic and gender-based violence cases reported altogether to court and police<\/li><li>Increased number of cases filed by members of vulnerable groups incl. victims of domestic and gender-based violence, children at risk and representatives of ethnic minorities<\/li><li>300 lawyers trained on prevention of discrimination, combating stereotypes and prejudices and supporting victims of domestic and gender-based violence<\/li><li>300 lawyers trained on JUSTROM (CoE and EC DG Justice) methodology<\/li><li>Creation of 7 legal aid mobile units reaching out to small and remote localities<\/li><li>Newly created coordination mechanisms for protection of victims of domestic and gender-based violence incl. staff at the MoI, MLSP, municipalities, court and Bar<\/li><li>3 created jobs within the pilot centers for consultation of victims of domestic and gender-based violence within each of the three pilot Bars<\/li><li>5000 unique visitors to the NLAB website and online publications\/posts raising awareness among citizens about the existence, scope and services of the NLAB<\/li><li>500 pupils, students, teachers and educators informed during info sessions\/presentations in the three pilot districts<\/li><li>10,000 printed and distributed legal aid brochures to new target groups<\/li><li>Improved access to primary legal aid for citizens with vulnerable background living under the poverty line<\/li><li>NLAB expands its activities and reaches out to new groups<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Grant amount: <\/strong>750 000 EUR<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Contact:<\/strong> Dilyana Giteva<br>email: project@nbpp.government.bg<br>phone: + 359 887251184, <br>address: 1 Rasvigor str., 1421 Sofia, Bulgaria<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The main aim of the project is to further expand the system for legal aid provision to encompass more citizens with vulnerable background as well as to strengthen the state&#8217;s role in reaction to domestic and gender-based violence while exercising its duties to ensure equal and fair access to justice and legal aid to people whose fundamental human rights have been violated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128,145,22,191,181,147,149],"tags":[216,233,228],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-rights-gender-equality","category-justice-programme-bulgaria","category-projects","category-sofia-district","category-stara-zagora-district","category-varna-district","category-veliko-tarnovo-district","tag-bilateral-project","tag-gender-based-violence","tag-legal-aid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/romapolicylab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/romapolicylab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/romapolicylab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romapolicylab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romapolicylab.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/romapolicylab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"https:\/\/romapolicylab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romapolicylab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/romapolicylab.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romapolicylab.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romapolicylab.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}